How to share a desktop? (for tutoring)

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:12:36 -0500
Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> I have a need to share a minimal desktop, VNC is out of the question
> as it's extremely heavy.

What on earth is heavy about VNC? It is simpler and uses less resources
than any other screen sharing system around as near as I can tell. I
often marvel at how small and self contained it is :-).